Are there good minion builds that use trigger to boost clear?

So in general, minion builds tend to clear somewhat slow but safe.

Theres just a lack of instant aoe that generally makes clear work.

I think the closest ive seen to something that would work was oscrix tech, combining infernal legion with instability to explode packs.

The lich has the explody node, but idk how potent that is, clears white trash mb?

Then we have something like detonate dead, which honestly sounds pretty good.

How come we never see it triggered on minion builds, maybe something like cast on minion death to automate it?

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CantripN5 months ago3

If you purely want clear, it's Infernal Legion with maybe weapon swap instability (eww).

Otherwise, Pounce is just plain pretty fast as far as minions go.

Skhemattos5 months ago2

This isn't what you mean but there was one I saw using living lightning and raging spirits and elemental sundering, I think. Let me find it

dopamin7785 months ago1

Problem here is that Minions wont trigger for you.

Maybe cast on minion death but you wanna depend on a minion to die for your clear?

Little-Passion-54635 months ago1

Infernal cry + Astral projection for range Applikation

Destabilize is the keyword (explosion on death)

Duckthehobo5 months ago1

There was a CoMD Chayula build floating around last league. I think they used sacrifice, unstable bond to build volatility to ramp damage. I assume the triggered spell was comets but I don’t remember precisely. It looked like it played pretty much like a doedre’s build but without the int stacking required in that patch.

silversurfer0225 months ago1

Well here is a "minion" build that uses trigger to do all damage lol: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/195c0

uNr3alXQc5 months ago1

I don't know about trigger but

Spectre powered zealot does a retarded amount of DMG/AOE.

They pretty much can 1 shot most boss with a mid gear.

Played it as my league starter.

Melted every Uber boss.

The only issue due to how minion work (they stay behind you) they kinda suck for temple since you pretty much have to jump inside a room for them to tp inside.

Shadowkarpet5 months ago1

I had an idea at some point about using infernal legion for reliable ignite, then have snap on a trigger gem to auto explode them. Haven't tried it yet though. I think it would be hard to scale, like almost all fire skills.

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